Community Moderation

This discussion is related to the Community Moderation addon.

Community Moderation

Dinoboff

Great idea. +1

iamtheari

I hope people give this a shot and test it out. It doesn't yet exist on the live site it is intended for ... essentially, what happened is that a high-traffic website had a forum for a long time, but the abusive users were too active and motivated for the forum moderators to keep up. So the solution was to take the forum offline completely and eventually to replace it with one using this kind of moderation system. The live site isn't up quite yet but we're hoping to get the theme work done this fall. When that's done and we open up, there should be enough activity to find the bugs and necessary tweaks.

In the meantime, please do give this a shot and report any issues you find to me. If you find that the default settings really suck, then let me know that too and I will change the defaults in a future version. Ideally, all you would have to do is install the extension, set the right permissions, and never have to lift a finger to moderate your own forum ever again. =)

Also, if anyone wants to make the default CSS colors and such look better, then by all means submit your fixes to that, as well. Thanks!

SubJunk

Interesting idea, great job

MichaelPierce

gave this a install and noticed it might not work with friendly urls, when i try and click on the moderation links in the sidebar they go to current userpage, and about community moderation link doesn't work, just a heads up

iamtheari

Yeah, I posted a question about extension.php not playing nice with Friendly URLs. I think that only the about link is affected, though. The actual moderation commands (up, down, and unfair) should be okay, but let me know if I'm wrong about that.

As to the moderation links in the sidebar, only the about item and the current points are actual links, and the latter is supposed to go to your user page, which displays your points history. It seemed reasonable to me although I do understand why it might seem like a bug at first as it is just as reasonable for a user to expect a special page from that link.

Any thoughts on better things to do with that? I could de-linkify the points indicator, or add another thing to extension.php's postbacks to show your moderation points history, although the problem with that is that it'd then be displayed in two places (user page and there).

MichaelPierce

I'll play with it tonight and let you know, email me your aim/msn contact and maybe we can collab on a solution hello@253hiphop.com (I'm pretty good at the ui stuff)

Resilient

Installed this and I have to say I absolutely love it! The only problem I seem to have is a clash with the UserAwards extension. In the actual comment, once a vote is made and the relevant voters username is displayed beneath the actual comment, it also seems to include any awards the voter has. I've provided a snippet of what I mean below. How can the awards be removed so that only the username is displayed as intended with this extension?

iamtheari

Odd - it should just be giving the username. Can you look at the HTML source to see if the images are being stuffed into the 'a' tags that this extension is making or if they are coming from somewhere else? Maybe it's coming from some CSS decorations added by the UserAwards extension without discriminating which extension created the HTML it's decorating. *shrug*

Resilient

I'll have a look through the source thoroughly and get back to you on that one. I assume it may actually be a problem on behalf of the UserAwards extension as it does have a function in there somewhere that specifically places icons of any awards the user has next to their username within the comment body. I'll definitely have a look like I said and let you know for definite where the problem is being caused. Great extension though nonetheless! I love the concept. :)

iamtheari

Thanks. I hope it works as well in practice as the concept does in theory. Keep me posted. :)

iamtheari

@Resilient: Any luck?

Martine

@Resilient (and anyone else who has installed): Would you mind sharing the URL where your forum is located? I want to see this in action. :)

iamtheari

I second that ... plus it'd help me see other extensions interacting with it. :)

Resilient

@iamtheari - Apologies for not being around much. I've been real badly caught up with work. I don't actually have the extension running on my live site, but do have it on locally still. Not had the chance to look at it yet but as soon as I do I'll let you know.

iamtheari

@Resilient: Thanks, that's just fine. I know how work can interfere with hobbies from time to time (it took me 2 years to get around to writing this extension, if that's any indicator!)

1stAngel

I am trying it at present on http://1stangel.co.uk/forum I have only just put it on so am unsure yet if it works... plus I am already using ModTools so I am hoping this will not counter that. I have UserAwards on too..... *gulp* Hope it works LOL

iamtheari

This shouldn't interfere with any other extensions, although if it does please do tell me about it here. Let me know what you like or dislike about it, too. Thanks! :)

1stAngel

Well I had to turn it off last night as I tried to delete a post and it gave me literally a page load of errors and the post didnt go BUT I think that was my fault as I had multi mod on too. I will go and take off mutli mod now and then try deleting a post again and see what happens.

Will keep you up to date.

1stAngel

the post doesnt go. The errors are due to something else as I have them even with community mod off. I am going to have to give them both a miss I think as I do not know how to change things.

tobbaz

When attempting to log out, I get this error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::AddList() in /Users/bergius/Sites/sincerely/extensions/CommunityModeration/cm_functions.php on line 20

iamtheari

Thanks - I think I see the cause of that and will make sure to test it and fix it for the next release. I will post here if I have any difficulty reproducing the error.

EDIT: No, now that I took a second look, this problem should not occur. It looks to me like some other extension or theme may be setting the $Panel global variable in the logout process but not setting it to be a Vanilla Panel object. What other extensions do you have installed?

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version 1.1 of Community Moderation.

SlashedZero

This is really a great extension. It works very well, however I have a problem with user permissions. It seems like permissions aren't taken in account when I change them - and I can't access the extension settings. I was able to set permissions once, then the link to the settings disappeared. I've no idea what's causing this.
Nevermind, settings are accessible now.

scooter-

I'm using the vanbook style and it doesn't quite fit in with it, the '0 points' bit overlaps the 'edit' and 'quote' buttons. Anyone modified the style for themselves to get around this problem? I just wanted to ask before I dive in and try and change it myself.

iamtheari

I doubt anyone else has modified the style much yet, as this is still relatively new, but please go ahead and fix it all you want. I'm not a CSS wizard so the people who are just made it look good with the default Vanilla style. If you have an improvement that doesn't break default Vanilla compatibility I'd gladly add it into the next version, as well. I hope you find this extension useful. =)

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version 1.2 of Community Moderation.

iamtheari

Version 1.2 changes the code a bit to place the moderation vote lists outside of the comment body 'div', fixing compatibility with the Quotations extension (which, with prior versions of this extension, would include the then-current vote list in the quoted body, possibly even including vote lists that other people would not/should not see.)

alt

I can't find where to change the settings.... I want to get rid of the maximum score. We want to use high scores to award prizes. We might also want to tweak a couple of things. But I just cant figure it out... I'm new so the answer is probably obvious. Thanks!

Jared

The Friendly URL addon still interferes with the "About" link located on the left panel.

Just a heads up. :)

Dirkus

I am trying to get the Community Moderation extension to work, but so far I only see a menu entry in the left panel that shows the number of points available and a link to "About community moderation". I don't see anyway to moderate a post or anyway to change settings. I am using Vanilla 1.1.5a, Community Moderation 1.2, along with several other extensions. I am using the vanilla theme with a slightly modified style. Any thought or ideas on how to get Community Moderation working? Thanks!